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Northshore October 2025
  At a young age Danvers resident Melissa Gale watched her mother and grandmother in the kitchen, baking cakes, pies, and cookies for family and friends. Her mother, Rita, did not rely on measuring cups and spoons but rather her own intuition as to the amount of ingredients she would use to render the perfect cookie. “With Rita, you had to watch very closely because it wasn’t a recipe—it was a little of this and a little of that,” says Gale. “The measurement was a nod of the head or a few taps of the foot—she never overmixed or overbaked.” “I knew by 15, when I was selling Grandma R
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